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...program again six weeks ago, and this time the baritone withdrew. Through it all, the 160-voice chorus kept practicing away, running up production costs that ultimately skyrocketed to $300,000, thus making it one of the most expensive operas ever produced. Finally, Tenor Richard Lewis and Baritone Donald Gramm stepped into the roles of the Biblical brothers, and the promised land was reached...
Stravinsky: "Les Noces," "Renard" and "Ragtime for Eleven Instruments" (Mildred Allen, soprano; Regina Sarfaty, mezzo; Loren Driscoll and George Shirley, tenors; William Murphy, baritone; Donald Gramm and Robert Oliver, basses; Igor Stravinsky conducting; Columbia). A brightly performed addition to the growing collection of Stravinsky's works conducted by the composer himself. At Stravinsky's own request, Composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and Roger Sessions play the piano parts in Les Noces, and in this and the other works Stravinsky shapes performances of water clarity and rhythmic fire. Ragtime is the album's special treat...
Despite our oratorical bravado We're, all of us, so . . . incommunicado. GENE GRAMM New York City...
...This vehicle was trundled off the Boston Public Garden's stage last week and sent moonward with a bang, a yellow flash and an ominous puff of smoke. From there on, with the help of a first-rate cast (Tenors Norman Kelley and David Lloyd, Bass Baritone Donald Gramm, Sopranos Adelaide Bishop and Lorena Spence), the opera worked its way to the moon and back, picking up a Purple People Eater as it went along...
Striker Edwin A. Gramm, a machinist working on F-86Fs, who, though not a union member, stayed out for three weeks before going back, summed up the strikers' troubles. "Things got too tough for me," said he. "My car insurance came due. That's $120. The taxes on my house came due. That's $140. I've got a boy in junior high, and he was yelling for gym clothes." When Gramm went back, North American gave him its offered pay boost of 8? an hour, plus living-cost bonus of 2? (the union had asked...